Nested Scrolls; The Autobiography of Rudolf von Bitter Rucker

By Rudy Rucker

Nested Scrolls reveals the true-life adventures of Rudolf von Bitter “Rudy” Rucker—mathematician, transrealist author, punk rocker, and computer hacker. It begins with a young boy growing up in Louisville, Kentucky, the son of a businessman father who becomes a clergyman, and a mother descended from the philosopher Hegel. His career goals? To explore infinity, popularize the fourth dimension, seek the gnarl, become a beatnik writer, and father a family. All the while Rudy is reading science fiction and beat poetry, and beginning to write some pretty strange fiction of his own—a blend of Philip K. Dick and hard SF that qualifies him as part of the original circle of writers in the early 1980s that includes Bruce Sterling, William Gibson, John Shirley, and Lewis Shiner, who were the founders of cyberpunk. At one level, Rucker’s genial and unfettered memoir brings us a firsthand account of how he and his contemporaries ushered in our postmodern world. At another, this is the wry and moving tale of a man making his way from one turbulent century to the next.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
• Release date: Dec 11, 2012
• ISBN: 9780765327536

Rudy Rucker

Rudy Rucker is a writer and a mathematician who worked for twenty years as a Silicon Valley computer science professor. He is regarded as contemporary master of science-fiction, and received the Philip K. Dick award twice. His thirty published books include both novels and non-fiction books. A founder of the cyberpunk school of science-fiction, Rucker also writes SF in a realistic style known as transrealism. His books include Postsingular and Spaceland.

Reviews for Nested Scrolls; The Autobiography of Rudolf von Bitter Rucker

[nmele_4 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Rudy Rucker's fiction has always fascinated me, mostly for the way he plays with philosophical and scientific themes and questions, working them out as the story proceeds, and for his evident fascination with and delight in this universe. In his memoir, he continues that practice with his usual verve, humor and frankness.